Yeah I see where you’re coming from.
I think that having over half of our entire history wearing navy socks should see us wear them more often. Once this decade isn’t enough for me as navy socks or white socks are my two preferred choices.
But I also think you can’t always look back and that sometimes you should do something completely new.
That kit a few pages back with white socks with purple turnovers is really nice. Purple is a City colour and it’s be a kit that in thirty years’ time people will say “remember when we won the Premier League and Champions League double in 2020 with purple on the kit? Let’s have a kit commemorating that again!”